#ge

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#crushing #dad #entirely #ever #happened

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#annoying #attention #demanding #doing #else

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #before #book #doing #each

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#better #budget #certainly #could #i

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren. ↗

— Howard Coble

#american #american families #believe #children #diligently

And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before. ↗

— Joel Coen

#back #before #cut #film #first

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#around #changed #did #free #i

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#any #dead #different #family #here

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#got #how #judged #times

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#budget #called #clearly #control #creation